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Sorry about this. I work on the documentation (author of the post). Are you talking about searching through the docs or searching through GitHub? ARe there specific things you've searched for you couldn't find?

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It has been primarily related to web search and Github. It has been a month or two since I last tried the Next.js app router and I don't remember specifics, but I do recall that my workflow often involved searching for an issue, article, or guide related to how to accomplish something or fix something in relation to the router, but with the distinction between routing mechanisms being represented by these relatively generic nouns (app/pages), I found it difficult/cumbersome to identify if the information I was looking at was pertinent to the routing mechanism I was using. I wouldn't be surprised if the situation has improved by now.

I'd also like to mention that I regret my uncharitable phrasing in my original comment "…the most ungooglable and generic name they could have chosen…". While I do think more specific names might have helped in some ways, I can appreciate the difficulty in coming up with names for this kind of thing.

Naming things is hard. On the one hand, I prefer descriptive names like app router. On the other, idiosyncratic names like, idk, Pinecone are more googleable but opaque and hard to remember sometimes.

I used the CSS toolkit called Less and that name took the worst out of each hand. That was just terrible re: searching for things.

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